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Author Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-

Title Emancipation's diaspora : race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest / Leslie A. Schwalm.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
©2009

Item Status

Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xii, 387 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-373) and index.
Contents A full realization of the barbarities of slavery -- A time of scattering -- Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and -- Migration in the upper Midwest -- To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience -- The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom -- Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction -- Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history -- Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.
Summary Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. This book follows the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery; made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin; and worked to live in dignity as free women and men, and as citizens. It explores the hotly contested politics of black enfranchisement as well as collisions over segregation, civil rights, and the more informal politics of race - including how slavery and emancipation would be remembered and commemorated.
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Subject Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans.
Iowa.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African Americans -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century.
Minnesota.
African Americans -- Wisconsin -- History -- 19th century.
Wisconsin.
Freed persons -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century.
Freed persons.
Freed persons -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century.
Freed persons -- Wisconsin -- History -- 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Iowa -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Race relations.
Minnesota -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Wisconsin -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956- Emancipation's diaspora. 1st ed. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832912 (DLC) 2009003098 (OCoLC)261174627
ISBN 9780807894125 (electronic book)
0807894125 (electronic book)
9781469605579 (electronic book)
1469605570 (electronic book)
080783291X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807832912 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807859508 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807859506 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807832912 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807859506 (paperback ; alkaline paper)